We home schooled. My wife was afraid that she was not qualified to teach high school, so we looked at putting them in the public high school. The high school would not give them credit for much of the coursework they had done. Suddenly instead of being a couple of years ahead, they were a couple of years behind. So we went to the local junior college.The junior college would not accept them unless they tested dirrectly into college courses and not the remedial courses most high school graduates have to take. So my girls started college at 13 and 14. My wife that was afraid to teach them high school had inadvertently prepared them for college.
The point of all that was... get kids out of public schools, they are government child abuse. Parents can do much better.
“We home schooled. My wife was afraid that she was not qualified to teach high school, so we looked at putting them in the public high school. The high school would not give them credit for much of the coursework they had done. Suddenly instead of being a couple of years ahead, they were a couple of years behind. So we went to the local junior college.The junior college would not accept them unless they tested dirrectly into college courses and not the remedial courses most high school graduates have to take. So my girls started college at 13 and 14. My wife that was afraid to teach them high school had inadvertently prepared them for college.”
Nice job! Kind of mirrors the story with my kids. I was never about to put them in government schools (Dr. Sowell made it perfectly obvious as to why no one should do it...but what the hell, they’re ‘free’). Anyway, our junior college had the same rules - no remedial classes for young entries. And that’s mainly because the public schools know that parents, by droves, would be pulling their kids out of the public schools and putting them into college, if they could simply finish off high school there, as 90% of the social problems and indoctrination doesn’t happen at junior colleges...and that younger kids would finally have an environment where they could actually learn something.
My children started college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13.
In my case, I had to return to work for 6 months to maintain my professional license. I took them to the community college for testing. They scored so well that they were admitted. All three have masters degrees in their fields of study: computer engineering, statistics, and accounting.